Being better prepared could save millions of lives and trillions of dollars.
Commentaries
The story line from Reagan to Trump is the same: undermining global public health to serve narrow interests. Only now, we’re in a pandemic.
Deadly, disruptive, and economically devastating as COVID-19 has proved to be, in retrospect it may turn out to have had at least this one silver lining.
Donald Trump could end up in court over his mishandling of the coronavirus.
What a plague 2,500 years ago can tell us about our current political moment.
The World Bank is still pretending that deregulating markets and corporations, rather than supporting ordinary people, is the way out of this crisis.
Far-right governments are rolling back environmental regulations, while international climate talks stall amid the crisis. But climate activists see opportunity.
The Indian government’s repression of doctors and restrictions on the Internet could make the pandemic far deadlier in the formerly autonomous region.
War and sanctions have left behind a devastated health care system.
Rather than promote a new Cold War, now is the time to definitively end the last one.